]]>Local NewsFri, 23 May 2008 21:53:46 +0000Remaking Rock Island: Armory Park and the Arts Could Revitalize the City's Corehttp://www.rcreader.com/news/remaking-rock-island-armory-park/
http://www.rcreader.com/news/remaking-rock-island-armory-park/ As it moves toward the biggest reinvention of the city since the creation of The District in 1992, Rock Island is also working to make itself Artist Central in the Quad Cities.
]]>jeff@rcreader.com (Jeff Ignatius)Local NewsWed, 21 May 2008 08:34:36 +0000Saved by Schindler: Leon Leyson, May 19 at the i wireless Centerhttp://www.rcreader.com/news/saved-by-schindler-leon-leyson/
http://www.rcreader.com/news/saved-by-schindler-leon-leyson/
Many
of the lighter moments in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning film
Schindler's List
came when the industrialist Oskar Schindler protested to German
officials that children and people with disabilities were essential
to his wartime manufacturing effort.

Leon
Leyson, who will speak Monday at the i wireless Center in Moline, was
the youngest person in Schindler's factory, and one of roughly
1,200 Jews that he saved from the Nazi death camps.

]]>Local NewsWed, 14 May 2008 08:21:53 +0000Bottled Up: It Makes Sense to Reform Iowa's Container-Deposit Law, But Change Has Its Pitfallshttp://www.rcreader.com/news/bottled-up-it-makes-sense/
http://www.rcreader.com/news/bottled-up-it-makes-sense/
When
Governor Chet Culver in
his January 15 "Condition of the State" address proposed
reworking Iowa's container-deposit law - popularly known as the
"Bottle Bill" - his core idea was strong.
]]>Local NewsWed, 27 Feb 2008 08:37:26 +0000A Different Kind of Diversity: Davenport’s 100 Homes Takes Unconventional Approach to Revitalizationhttp://www.rcreader.com/news/a-different-kind-of-diversity/
http://www.rcreader.com/news/a-different-kind-of-diversity/
Bruce
Berger admits that "it's a little uncomfortable to talk about"
the City of Davenport's new 100 Homes program.

"This
isn't a program for low and moderate income," said Berger,
Davenport's manager of housing and neighborhood development.
"That's an odd thing for a city housing rehab program to do. Not
that it's bad."

]]>Local NewsWed, 09 Jan 2008 08:26:00 +0000“Promise”-Keeping: Developer of the Kalamazoo Initiative Cautions that a Promise Is No Quick Fixhttp://www.rcreader.com/news/promise-keeping-developer-of/
http://www.rcreader.com/news/promise-keeping-developer-of/
To
the backers of the Davenport Promise initiative, the developer of the
model on which it is based has some words of caution:

The
Promise is not a sure thing. It's not a silver bullet. And it needs
to be part of a larger community-improvement push.

]]>Local NewsWed, 07 Nov 2007 16:28:23 +0000In Thrall of Sprawl: City Planner Lectures July 9 at the Figge Art Museumhttp://www.rcreader.com/news/in-thrall-of-sprawl-city/
http://www.rcreader.com/news/in-thrall-of-sprawl-city/
Jeff
Speck doesn't expect to be a popular person among government
officials.

"It
will be a little bit controversial," Speck said of his July 9
lecture at the Figge Art Museum. "I will attack your public-works
department and your fire chief - never having met them."

]]>Local NewsTue, 03 Jul 2007 08:43:25 +0000Encouraging Good Behavior: Proposed “Linked Deposit” Could Push Banks to Reinvest in the Communityhttp://www.rcreader.com/news/encouraging-good-behavior-proposed-linked/
http://www.rcreader.com/news/encouraging-good-behavior-proposed-linked/
The
City of Davenport has more than $66 million in the bank. One
committee within city government hopes to make that money work harder
for the city as a whole by encouraging banks to reinvest more in the
community.
]]>Local NewsWed, 16 May 2007 08:31:58 +0000Bike Lanes Help Move Toward “Complete Streets”http://www.rcreader.com/news/bike-lanes-help-move-toward/
http://www.rcreader.com/news/bike-lanes-help-move-toward/
The
week of May 12 through 18 is "Bike to Work Week," but if you're
a casual cyclist, good luck.

The
Quad Cities have a great trail system along both sides of the
Mississippi River - which one day is expected to form a loop on
each side of the river. Yet that system is geared more toward
recreation than transportation - getting you from home to work. And
very few drivers are good at sharing the road with bicyclists in a
way that makes both feel safe.

Enter
"complete streets."

]]>Local NewsWed, 09 May 2007 08:26:57 +0000A Model Disc-Golf Communityhttp://www.rcreader.com/news/a-model-disc-golf-community/
http://www.rcreader.com/news/a-model-disc-golf-community/
Be
forewarned the following commentary is a shameless effort to provide
publicity for the River Cities Rumble Disc Golf Tournament, a
sporting event the Reader
co-founded last year with the Quad City Disc Golf Club (QCDGC).

Just
over a year later the QCDGC (started in 1999), led by tournament
director Chad Eng, has succeeded in securing a couple significant
milestones for the second-annual River Cities Rumble.